The behavioral styles of computer programmers
Edward M. Cross · 1970
This paper describes a part of the research conducted for a doctoral dissertation. The purpose of the research was to test an approach to job analysis, specifically focusing on the utility of a certain set of constructs, those underlying the scales of the principal instrument used in the study, for job analysis purposes. Because a rather substantial part of the study and the background for the study would not be of interest to any but a few of the people assembled here, much explanatory material has been omitted. What will hopefully be of more general interest will be the manner in which the job analysis was conducted, the outcomes of various phases of the job analysis, and the implications of these outcomes. This is because the occupation at which the job analysis is directed is the computer programming group (business programmer type), the reason for this choice being that the author has spent a much larger portion of his career as a computer programmer than he has as a job analyst.